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PATENTED MAY 26, 1903.

B. B. WHALEY.

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APPLICATION IILBD mun, 1902.

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Patented May 26, 1903.

BARNETT B. WHALEY, or

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Application filed May 27,1902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BARNETT B. WHALEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn borough, New York city, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention while relating to what may be generally called a toy or bubbleblower can be considered as serving not only for amusement, but also having practical features, such as lung-testing or lung-developing.

The invention resides in certain novel features of construction, which can be understood from the following specification and claims, and are illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the toy embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is an edge view sectioned along a; m Fig. 1.

In the drawings is shown the bowl 10 of a pipe. An ordinary clay pipe as found on the market can be used; but in putting this invention on the market a salable outfit is obtained by including therein a wooden bowl with ratan tube or stem. Such details, however, are not to limit the scope of this invention. An attachment 18 can be connected to the bowl by a suitable plug or closure. A plug 16 is shown adapted for insertion into the pipe, or rather its bowl. This plug when made of wood has been found to secure a satisfactory hold or grip to the bowl-wall, so as to remain in place. A slight taper given to the plug will aid proper insertion, and theouter end of the plug can be suitablyfianged to serve conveniently as a handle when inserting or withdrawing the plug. The plug is shown provided with a series of perforations or holes, forming passages or outlets for the air when blowing bubbles. These perforations or small channels also serve for bolding a supply of suds when the toy is dipped. A supply-0f suds being held in the channels and, if desired, a supply of suds or bubbleforming fluid being allowed to settle in the bowl or at the inner face of the plug an amount is obtained sufficient to blow a large bubble or a series or cluster of bubbles. Such BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

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Patent No. 729,466, dated May 26, 1903.

Serial No. 109,215. (No model.)

large supply of suds can also 'be useful in lung testing or competition, which'may, in one sense, also be considered as part of the play or amusement'furnished by the device. The plug and hook 18 formsa suspending device, upon which is suspended the figure 19 through the frame of the hook 1S engaging 'with the hook 18.

- bubble-blowing or after the bubble is formed and clings to or at the mouth of the bowl. Say this figure, for example, is made to represent a fisherman having a swinging arm adapted to lift a fish or the like,'(sl1own at 19'.) A string 24:, suitably connected to the swinging arm and guided through an eye or loop and having a handle ball or weight 25, can serve to raise the fish, the latter when free dropping by its own weight. The string is long enough to have handle 25 hanging outside thesoap-bubble. When the latter is formed, the fixed object 19 is inside the same, while the movable figure or object 19, if the hubble is small enough, hangs outside. The string being suitably pulled, the arm or the fish lifted by said armwill swing or move into the inside of the bubble. When free, the fish will drop back to its lower or starting position.

Of course the representation of a fisherman hauling up a fish merely serves as an example, as other figuresfor, example, a monkey moving or sliding along a pole or any variety of acrobatic or other figures-may suggest themselves.

The hook or fastener 18 being centrally located or fastened to the middle of the plug, the bubbles will-form or center neatly thereabout.

The suspending device can be made of separable sections. Such separable sections enable the figure, with a bubble surrounding the same, to be removed from the MM.

What Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.

1. A toy for producing soap-bubbles comprising a pipe-bowl, a plug extending in and projecting from the bowl and provided with a plurality of channels, a hook depending from said plug, an object movable with respect to the bubble, means connected with the object and engaging with the said hook for suspending the object, and means for moving the object.

2. A toy for producing soap-bubbles comprising a pipe-bowl, a closure-plug extending therein and provided witha plurality of channels, an object movable with respect to the bubble, means for connecting the object to the plug, and means connected with the object. and adapted when operated to suitably move the object with respect to the bubble.

'3. A toy for producing soap-bubbles comprising a pi pe-bowl, a closure-plugextending therein and provided with a plurality of channels, an object movable with respect to the bubble, means for connecting the object to the plug, and means connected to and depending from the object for suitably operating it with respect to the bubble.

4. A toy for producing soap-bubbles comprising a pipe-bowl, a plug extending in and projecting from said bowl and provided with a series of channels, an object, means connected to the plug for suspending said object, 

